Radio: Cosmic Editor

In the early '30s, when U. S. press services decided to withhold their
news from radio, a short, stocky, ex-Worldman named Abe Schechter,*
then in NBC's publicity department, was assigned the job of garnering
enough items to provide Lowell Thomas with adequate scripts. Armed with
only a telephone, Schechter proceeded to scoop the ears off many a
paper. Often while reporters huddled in anterooms, Schechter, in the
name of Lowell Thomas, was getting newsworthy statements over his wire.
Before the press-radio feud was ended, he had correspondents all over
the country. Even such eminents as Maryland's late Governor Ritchie
served as...